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LOS ANGELES (AP) — De’Aaron Fox scored 24 points and Terence Davis added 23 successful the Sacramento Kings’ 124-115 triumph implicit the shorthanded Los Angeles Clippers connected Wednesday night.
Richaun Holmes had 16 points and 11 rebounds arsenic the Kings snapped a two-game skid and improved to 3-3 nether interim manager Alvin Gentry aft a 6-11 commencement that led to Luke Walton’s firing past month.
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Sacramento besides bounced backmost solidly from a blowout nonaccomplishment astatine location to the Lakers 1 nighttime earlier. The Kings blew a 14-point pb aboriginal successful the 3rd 4th of Tuesday’s defeat, prompting an aggravated movie league earlier they faced a Clippers squad without Paul George, Kawhi Leonard oregon Nicolas Batum.
“For astir of the game, I thought we played to the level that we should, conscionable from a competitory standpoint,” Gentry said. “They’re a bully clump of players, and I deliberation they privation to bash the close thing. I conscionable wanted to punctual them that we person to bash it connected a accordant basis, but I thought the effect was great.”
George sat retired to rest, and Sacramento had small occupation with Los Angeles’ relation players aboriginal on, jumping to a 20-point pb aboriginal successful some halves and ne'er trailing astatine Staples Center.
But 5 Clippers reserves led a 14-0 rally successful the last minutes portion the Kings inactive had 4 starters successful the game, trimming Sacramento’s pb to 8 points with 1:28 to play. Fox deed a clinching layup successful the last minute.
“They were moving mode faster than us, flying around, and we couldn’t support up successful that 3rd quarter,” Clippers manager Tyronn Lue said. “We did immoderate bully things, but defensively was wherever they wounded america much than anything. You travel successful with a crippled plan, and past you person to adjust. We did that, but they were playing well.”
George hadn’t sat each season, but successful doing so, helium near the Clippers without some cornerstones of the roster that reached the Western Conference finals past summertime for the archetypal clip successful franchise history. The Clippers person been struggling to enactment supra .500 successful Leonard’s lack portion riding connected the shoulders of George, who scored astatine slightest 20 points successful 17 of their archetypal 21 games.
Leonard isn’t adjacent to making his play debut aft undergoing genu ligament country successful July. Batum besides missed his sixth consecutive crippled for the Clippers nether the league’s COVID-19 wellness and information protocols.
Luke Kennard scored 13 of his 19 points successful the 4th fourth for the Clippers, who person mislaid 7 of 10. Los Angeles fell backmost to 11-11 with its 3rd consecutive loss, including back-to-back location defeats to struggling New Orleans and Sacramento.
“We conscionable didn’t get connected way defensively with what we wanted to do,” Kennard said. “It’s thing we’ve got to hole close away, and I deliberation we’ve got the guys successful the locker country to bash that, who are consenting to spot successful each different and marque the changes we request to get much wins.”
Terance Mann besides had 19 points for Los Angeles, and Ivica Zubac added 17 points and 7 rebounds.
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Rookie Davion Mitchell scored 20 points for Sacramento, conscionable 2 shy of his vocation high, portion Tyrese Haliburton had 12 points and 11 assists for the Kings successful the California clubs’ archetypal gathering of the season. They’ll person a rematch successful Sacramento connected Saturday.
“We fto them spot airy and deed a mates of shots astatine the end,” said Mitchell, who made his archetypal 7 shots earlier his archetypal miss successful the last infinitesimal of the 3rd quarter. “They got comfortable, and we started to crook the shot over. They made their run, but we did a bully occupation of not letting them get close.”
Sacramento got disconnected to a beardown commencement with 13 points apiece successful the archetypal fractional from Mitchell and Chimezie Metu, a Los Angeles autochthonal who played astatine Lawndale High School earlier 3 seasons astatine Southern California. The Kings streaked to a 20-point pb aboriginal on, but the Clippers trimmed it to 62-52 astatine the half.
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Kings: They’ve got 2 wins astatine Staples Center and 3 wins astatine Sacramento’s Golden 1 Center this season. … Moe Harkless sat retired with a genu wounded contempt being upgraded to questionable earlier the game. … Marvin Bagley remained sidelined by a non-COVID-19 illness. … Harrison Barnes missed his 4th consecutive crippled with a ft injury.
Clippers: Marcus Morris returned aft a one-game remainder absence. … Kennard converted a four-point play successful the 4th quarter.
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Los Angeles astir played the full archetypal fractional without shooting a escaped throw, but Reggie Jackson yet got to the enactment 12.1 seconds earlier the break. The Clippers didn’t consistently get to the enactment until the 4th quarter, erstwhile they earned 10 of their 16 escaped throws.
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Kings: Host Clippers connected Saturday night.
Clippers: At Lakers connected Friday night.
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